Non-Violence and Satyagraha

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was one of the most outstanding men that the twentieth century has produced. He grew to the fullest stature of human personality and has left behind a name to be cherished devoutly in the memories of human generations for centuries to come. Gandhi made the technique of non-violence the powerful weapon in his fight against British imperialism. For him the only dogma was his belief in non-violence as a creed and here he was not willing to make compromises. Both the doctrines of non-violence and satyagraha are linked to Gandhi’s innate attachment to truth which is described as ‘truth force’. His greatest experiments related to the method of satyagraha which he applied to different situations and against different types of opponents. This book studies Mahatma Gandhi’s thoughts and doctrines of non-violence and satyagraha. This outstanding book would be a valuable addition for all libraries and a treasure for all scholars, students and general readers interested in the study of Mahatma Gandhi.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Ramaswamy

S. Ramaswamy obtained his M.A. first class in English Literature and received Gold Medal from Mysore University in 1954. He was a Fulbright/Smith-Mundt scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1964 to 1966 and earned an M.A. in American Literature and won the Phi Beta Kappa Award. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree for his thesis on Tennessee Williams by Bangalore University in 1973. He was a British Council scholar at Oxford and London, a Senior Fulbright Fellow at Indo-Canadian scholar at McGill University, Montreal. He has been widely published in the areas of American Literature, Comparative Literature and Indological Studies. He has studied Sanskrit traditionally, and is a Fellow of Silliman College, Yale University.